頃 – time, about, toward

11 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#2015 in newspaper frequencyN4 vocabulary

The kanji 頃 means time, about, toward. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ケイ、キョウ (kei, kyou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ころ、ごろ、しばら.く (koro, goro, shibaraku). It is written with 11 strokes, under radical 頁 (no. 181).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ケイ	kei
On’yomi	キョウ	kyou
Kun’yomi	ころ	koro
Kun’yomi	ごろ	goro
Kun’yomi	しばら.く	shibaraku

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 頁 (Kangxi radical 181). Components: 貝・目・ハ・頁・匕.

Words using 頃

この頃このごろthese days近頃ちかごろlately手頃てごろhandy年頃としごろapproximate age日頃ひごろusually一頃ひところonce

Example sentences

近頃は旅行は楽だ。

Travelling is easy these days.

Tatoeba #179829

大体君と同じ年頃の若い娘だった。

She was a young girl about your age.

Tatoeba #137403

もっと分別があってもいい年頃だよ。

You're old enough to know better.

Tatoeba #193206

Kanji with the same radical

題領額頭顔類頼順項願預顧頑頂顕頻

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.